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Monthly Archive: September 2017

On September 29, 2017, the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) charged an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) operator with fraud. The ICO project in question, REcoin, claimed their token was the “first ever cryptocurrency backed...

North Korea, a nation that has previously been accused of mining bitcoin in order to disobey the sanctions, is suspected to have hacked a number of bitcoin exchanges in South Korea. The country allegedly...

New research has found that a large majority of U.K companies (UK). are adopting fintech (financial technology) applications, helping them save billions on scarce financial resources each year. The study was conducted by MarketInvoice...

Last Friday Japan’s Finacial Services Agency (FSA) announced they are endorsing 11 different cryptocurrency exchanges, it makes them the friendliest Asian Bitcoin market. This sets Japan on a path to becoming the headquarters for everything Bitcoin, especially...

Last year, the CME legacy exchange group provided a bitcoin price index with the intent of adding bitcoin futures. However, they decided not to follow through with those plans. Bryan Durkin, who runs the...

Chamath Palihapitiya is a well-known Venture capitalist, Facebook millionaire and bitcoin investor, who’s previously publicly announced his belief in the cryptocurrency. The venture capitalist, who was an early member of the Facebook team and owns the Golden State Warriors, told...

Bahrain, an island country in the Middle East, is interested in bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Their government hopes to be on the cutting edge of fintech innovations. Khalid Al Rumaihi, the chief executive of the Economic...

Ethereum’s price has increased from $285 to $315, surpassing the $300 margin for the first time since September 12 within the past 24 hours. On September 1, the price of Ether closed on the $400 region, surging...

The giant Accenture and Hyperledger, the blockchain initiative open source Linux Foundation will co-host the inaugural “Blockchain for Good Hackathon“, scheduled for 30 September and 1 October in Dublin. The hackathon will be held at The Dock, multidisciplinary research and incubation Accenture. Developers from all over Ireland can participate in...